Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Arkell, Anthony John
Dates of creation: 1928-1929
Extent: 3 files
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections: Sudan Archive
Created by: Arkell, Anthony John
Language:
English
(1898 - 1980)
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| 1921-1926 | A.D.C. Kuttum, later Geneina, Darfur |
| 1927-1929 | A.D.C./D.C. Kosti, White Nile Province |
| 1930-1932 | D.C. Makwar/Sennar, Blue Nile Province |
| 1932-1937 | D.C. El Fasher, Darfur |
| 1937-1938 | Deputy Governor, Civil Secretary's Office |
| 1938-1948 | Commissioner for Archaeology and Anthropology |
| 1941-1944 | Chief Transport Officer and Controller of Petroleum Products, War Supply Department |
| 1948 | Retired from Sudan service |
| 1948-1953 | Archaeological Adviser to the Sudan Government |
1. Official Papers
Presented by Professor Suzanne Miers, 1994
Catalogue
1. Official Papers - White Nile Province
SAD.783/1/1-53; SAD.783/2/1-103; SAD.783/3/1-28
1928-1929
Appendices A-Z (or 1-26) and 27-132, compiled by Arkell, to an unspecified report, presumably concerning the slave trade from Abyssinia to White Nile Province. Each appendix consists of a summary of the evidence presented at minor courts during
1928 and 1929, into cases involving smuggling and purchase of slaves
SAD.783/3/29-37
[c. 1929]
Statistical summary of information contained in appendices above, showing numbers and origins of slaves imported
SAD.783/3/38-39
1928 Jun 1
Addenda and corrigenda to appendices above, with covering letter from Arkell to the Governor, White Nile Province
SAD.783/3/40-53
1928 Jul 9
“A note on the history of the country of the Berta lying east of Kurmuk within the Abyssinian frontier, with special reference to the recent discovery of a considerable import of Berta slaves into the Sudan”,
compiled by Arkell from information received from Watawit and others convicted of complicity in the importation of slaves into White Nile Province, with covering letter to the province Governor [wrongly dated 1929]
SAD.783/3/54-55
1928 Aug 13
Comments by J.D.P. Chataway, A.D.C. Roseires, on Arkell's report above
